Game Experience and Evaluation -- Data Driven Agents for User Experience Testing -- Embraceable Virtual Paws: Player Experiences in Animal Shelter Simulators -- Livestreaming Games and Parenthood: Exploring the Experience of Portuguese Parent Streamers -- Videogame Students in Portuguese Higher Education: Perceptions, Motivations, and Playing Habits -- Psychological and Behavioral Effects of League of Legends rank system for Italian Competitive Players -- Comparing Performance and Experience in VR vs. Real-world through a Puzzle Game -- Looking Up the Camera to Play Right": An Interview Study of the Implications of Cinematic Storytelling in Game Design -- Game-based learning and edutainment -- Breaking the Wall of E-Waste Recycling Education by Means of a Digital Game -- How Players Develop Computational Thinking while Modeling Character Behaviors in Gameplay -- Extending Educational Games Across Product Lines -- A Videogame for Architectural Design? Minecraft for Young People to Imagine Desirable Climate Futures -- Math-Masters: An Educational Game to Practice the Mathematical Operations -- A Framework for the Creation of a Reading Video Game for Children -- Games and Culture. - Video Games and Adaptation: an Introduction -- A Lantern Called Desire: Time Travel, Space Nostalgia, and Desiring-Machines in 'The Great Perhaps' -- Adolescent masculinity and the geek aesthetic: a study of gaming magazine imagery 1982 to 1993 -- For a pragmatic study of the generic categorization of video games: the case of survival horror -- Game Design and Development -- Cities: Skylines: the digital and analog game design lessons for learning about collaborative urban planning -- Humans vs AI: An Exploratory Study With Online and Offline Learners -- An Evolutionary Approach for PCG in a Cooperative Puzzle Platform Game -- Icarus, towards diplomatic agents in Diplomacy -- Unlocking the Untapped Potential of Video Game Data: A Case Study of Aim Trainers -- ChemXP AR Edition, A Serious Game .

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts, VJ 2023, held in Aveiro, Portugal, during November 28-30, 2023. The 17 full papers and the 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: game experience and evaluation; game-based learning and edutainment; games and culture; game design and development.